癭

See also: 瘿

癭 U+766D, 癭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-766D ← 癬 [U+766C] CJK Unified Ideographs 癮 → [U+766E]

Translingual

Han character

癭 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+17, 22 strokes, cangjie input 大月金女 (KBCV), four-corner 0014₄, composition ⿸疒嬰)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 783, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22630
• Dae Jaweon: page 1192, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2703, character 24
• Unihan data for U+766D

Chinese

trad.		癭
simp.		瘿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 癭
Shang
Oracle bone script

Characters in the same phonetic series (賏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
瀴	*qreːŋs, *mqeːŋʔ, *qeːŋʔ
甖	*qreːŋ
鸚	*qreːŋ
櫻	*qreːŋ
嚶	*qreːŋ
罌	*qreːŋ
鸎	*qreːŋ
譻	*qreːŋ
賏	*qreŋs, *qeŋ
嬰	*qeŋ
瓔	*qeŋ
纓	*qeŋ
攖	*qeŋ
蘡	*qeŋ
癭	*qeŋʔ
廮	*qeŋʔ
巊	*qeːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qeŋʔ) : semantic 疒 + phonetic 嬰 (OC *qeŋ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǐng (ying³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǐng
    • Wade–Giles: ying³
    • Yale: yǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiing
    • Palladius: ин (in)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jing²
    • Yale: yíng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ying²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jiengX

Rime
Character	癭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於郢切
Baxter	'jiengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiᴇŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɛŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiæŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔiajŋX/
Li Rong	/ʔiɛŋX/
Wang Li	/ĭɛŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯ɛŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǐng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jing2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qeŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	癭
Reading #	1/1
No.	15341
Phonetic component	賏
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	廮
Old Chinese	/*qeŋʔ/

Definitions

癭

1. (pathology) goitre
2. (botany) gall
3. (figurative) burden; superfluous thing

Compounds

• 癭瘤 / 瘿瘤
• 蟲癭 / 虫瘿
• 頦下癭 / 颏下瘿

 

Japanese

Kanji

癭

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. swelling
2. goitre

Readings

• On (unclassified): えい (ei)、よう (yō)
• Kun: こぶ (kobu)

Korean

Hanja

癭 • (yeong) (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune–Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

1. swelling
2. superfluous
3. deaf-mute